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دراسة تقابلية اسلوبية للجزاء في نصوص الكتاب المقدس والقران الكريم == A CONTRASTIVE STYLISTIC STUDY OF RETRIBUTION IN BIBLICAL AND QUR'ANIC TEXTS
Author name:
سجى عبد الامير محمد علي الاعسم
Supervisor name:
رياض طارق كاظم العميدي
General topic:
Foreign Languages
Specific topic:
English - Language
Degree:
Doctorate
University:
University of Babylon - College Of Education For Human Sciences - Department Of English Language
Language:
English
University location:
Babylon
First pages:
06T1207 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Retribution ( reward - and - punishment ) is both a core - tenet andteaching in monotheistic religions. A large portion of Biblical and Qur'anictexts embodies the righteous judgment of Allah the Almighty, His graciousas well as wrath feature. They present this tenet in its double - face meaning : the future rewards and bliss to the righteous for their good done, andpunishment and misery to the wicked for their evil done in their earthlylives. Both be summed by the doctoral idea of ' heaven' and ' hell'. Such asolemn theme itself is really challenging to be studied linguisticallyespecially from the stylistic perspective, for the texts of these scared Booksare the optimal and highly style religious texts. Hence, this study sets tofulfill the following aims : (1) Identifying the stylistic phonological, syntacticand semantic devices of retribution in Biblical and Qur'anic texts. (2)Finding out the functions the stylistic phonological, syntactic and semanticdevices carry out in Biblical and Qur'anic texts of retribution. (3) Clarifyingthe overall functions Biblical as well as Qur'anic texts of retribution carryout. (4) Uncovering the co - relations and co - effect between the overallfunctions of Biblical as well as of Qur'anic texts of retribution and those ofthe utilized stylistic devices, i.e., how they are coalesced to produce astylistic interpretation to these texts. (5) Pointing out the stylistic similaritiesand differences between Biblical and Qur'anic texts of retribution. This is tocover the utilized stylistic devices and their functions as well as the overallfunctions of retribution texts. (6) Developing an eclectic stylistic model foranalyzing stylistic devices, their functions and the overall functions ofBiblical and Qur'anic texts of retribution.viiIt is hypothesized that : (1) Biblical and Qur'anic texts of retributionshare common stylistic devices on the three levels under scrutiny : phonological, syntactic and semantic. (2) Stylistic devices in Biblical andQur'anic texts of retribution are functionally equivalent. (3) The overallfunctions of Biblical and Qur'anic texts of retribution are not equivalent. (4)In both Biblical and Qur'anic texts of retribution, the overall functions of thetexts have co - relations with and co - effect on the utilized stylistic devices andtheir functions. (5) At all levels, no more than two or three different types ofstylistic devices can be noticed in Biblical texts of retribution, but severaldifferent types of stylistic devices can be noticed in Qur'anic texts. (6) InBiblical texts of retribution stylistic semantic devices are preferred, whereasin Qur'anic texts of retribution the syntactic ones are more of favour.The findings of the analysis validate the first, second and fourthhypotheses; refute the sixth one; whereas the third and the fifth are partiallyrefuted and partially validated. Consequently, among the conclusions thestudy comes up with is that there are striking similarities between the twolanguages regarding the stylistic devices, their functions and the overallfunctions of retribution texts in the Holy Bible and the Glorious Qur'an.Hence, the area of differences is very limited.
